Venezuela to beef up security after al Qaeda threat

[wakeme2008]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/15/venezuela.oil.reut/index.html

Venezuela to beef up security after al Qaeda threat
POSTED: 1:13 p.m. EST, February 15, 2007
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuela's defense minister said Thursday that the nation would reinforce security measures after a branch of al Qaeda called for attacks on suppliers of oil to the United States.

Venezuela provides around 11 percent of U.S. oil imports despite diplomatic tensions between Caracas and Washington over leftist President Hugo Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution.

Gen. Raul Baduel told reporters that security and intelligence agencies would "take actions and implement previously established security plans, but reinforce them with the goal of guaranteeing security."

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[villager]

1. so if he rounds up "suspected terrorists" w/o trials, will the Bushies complain?

n/t

[Marie26]

2. This story doesn't make sense

to me. Why would Al-Qaeda want to attack oil suppliers? Al-Queda is funded by oil wealth. Second, even if Al-Qaeda did want to do this, why would they start with Venezuela instead of the 10+ oil nations in the Mideast? It's just not clicking.

[Show_Me _The_Truth]

3. IF they are funded by oil wealth, wouldn't they want to drive the price up?

And wouldn't they want to affect a country that would not affect their benefactor's ability to sell oil to get the money once the price goes up?

[Tanuki]

4. How convenient for the Houses of Bush and Saud.

Undermining the Chavez government and damaging an economic competitor, all in one fell swoop, and then blaming it all on Al Quaeda.

[Flanker]

5. Compare and contrast

He called for calm and said Chavez would provide further instructions about how to deal with the threat.
vs
Raising a terror alert and freaking people out

:lol:

[Demeter]

6. Al Qaida = BushCo Death Squads?

Wish we had a smoking building around to link them....

[bemildred]

7. Now that is clever propaganda. nt

[Acadia Blue]

8. How can we discover the truth today?